As in the past, after seeing the young master leave the bedroom, Ressa brought breakfast to the young master, but when she walked to the dining room with a simple and nutritious breakfast, she saw that the young master was bending over and standing next to the telephone on the wall of the living room, shouting into the microphone, and the earpiece was close to his ear.

This young master, who usually looks calm, is yelling - money-related yelling. The company, the factory, the silver, the wharf, the iron and iron factory, one thing after another, are all related to money in the end.

Ressa, who had been in a good mood, put down her plate and stood there, wanting to hear more. Growing up in a rich estate, she had never heard a rich man talk about money. She had heard her mother talk about it, she had heard the servants talk about it.

But to the former owner of this place, Sir Fuley, the current young master, and the people of this class, money seems to be an untouchable topic. It's as if for these already wealthy people, money is like air: something that exists around them, something that doesn't need them to think about it.

But like the young master now, grabbing the phone and talking about money, talking about how he is short of money, this is really the first time Ressa has seen it, it seems that at this moment, the concept of money is like air does not exist, for them, money is also money, rich people like them will also worry about money, although the money they have is enough for them to squander their lives, but people's ** is endless.

“…… Well! I will try to squeeze out another amount of money, and the project cannot be delayed! ”。

When Ressa hadn't heard enough. Chen Moran, who was holding the phone in his hand, said helplessly, and then raised his head.

"Oh, good morning!"

Seeing Ruisha standing by the door of the restaurant, Chen Moran casually said hello, and then walked directly into the study, and for a few months, the silver in his pocket flowed out of his pocket like the water of the Huangpu River.

"Hey!"

Sitting in the study, taking out a photo album from the drawer, looking at the banknotes in it, Chen Moran sighed, he had thought about starting the printing press and printing banknotes from other countries, but the reality was cruel.

The pattern of the pound sterling is the simplest, but the cross texture of the banknote when making paper and the complex watermark on the full page are enough to discourage Chen Moran, and even a batch of pound sterling banknotes purchased through foreign banks only have a special texture on the paper surface, but no watermark.

There are subtle differences between the banknotes of the German mark and the French franc and the export banknotes, the most fundamental difference is the watermark, the European banknotes are different from the US banknotes, the US banknotes have no watermarks, only man-made fibers, and the banknotes of European countries use watermarks, you can buy the same banknotes, but the problem of watermarks can not be solved, and no country will export the banknotes with its own watermarks.

Although it may be possible to successfully circulate small banknotes if the kind of banknote paper without watermark is printed, the risks involved are by no means what Chen Moran is willing to see.

"After all, I'm still a poor egg!"

The dilemma of the waist bag getting flatten and flattened made Chen Moran's brows squeeze into a ball, and then threw those dozen versions of banknotes directly into the drawer.

Chen Moran, who was a little irritable, tried to calm himself down, but after smoking a cigarette, he became even more irritable, and when he leaned back in his chair, Chen Moran, who was a little restless, saw a colorful magazine lying in the unclosed drawer.

World Expo

Looking at this magazine, Chen Moran remembered that this was a magazine that he took out casually from the pile of old books in the safe when he was copying the "Army Tactical Textbook" a few days ago, and originally wanted to adjust it when he was tired, but for some reason he threw it in a drawer.

Sit up straight and take out this magazine, then look at this magazine, borrowing books to adjust his mood is a habit of Chen Moran, those books in classical Chinese in this era cannot adjust his mood, it will only make his mood more depressed.

As soon as he opened the magazine, there was a headline in the catalog that caught his attention.

"Discovery of the Golden Lane Oilfield"

Golden Lane Oilfield?

Chen Moran was stunned for a moment, and then directly turned the page.

"Located in the Golden Lane oilfield in Tampico Bay, Mexico, it is world-famous for having three 10,000-ton wells, Dospocas 1 well, with a production of 11,000-20,000 tons. Morality? Well Rano 4, said to produce 14,000-15,700 tons, and Sero? The initial production of Well Asur No. 4 is as high as 37,000 tons/day, which is the highest production of a single well in the world......"

Seeing only the introduction in the box at the beginning of the article, Chen Moran only felt that his eyes lit up, and what he saw with his eyes was not oil, but ...... Money! Hurriedly continued to read.

"In 1900, Robinson, president of Mexico's Central Railroad, invited Edward, an American and California oil entrepreneur. Dohanni and his partner Canfield traveled to Mexico to find oil to solve the fuel problem for the locomotives of the railroad here.

Dohani and Canfield bought 180,000 acres of land in 1901 to form Petroleos Mexicanos to drill in the Tampico area on the east coast. …… Over the next three years, he spent more than $3 million in the neighborhood to drill a large number of wells, all of which were low-yielding wells that could not self-spew. A total of 125,000 barrels of oil were produced in three years, and it was heavy crude oil, which was not suitable for refining kerosene. At that time, kerosene was the leading product of oil refining, and paving the way with this heavy crude oil worked well...... Englishman Witte Gate who contracted construction work in Mexico. Pearson...... In 1906 he leased a large area of land around an asphalt lake on the southern isthmus of Mexico, and invited Captain Lucas, the discoverer of the American "spindle top" high-yield oil field, to Mexico to guide drilling, and set up the Mexican Eagle Oil Company.

In June 1908, the Mexican Eagle Oil Company in San Diego? A strong blowout occurred in the Dospocas 1 well in Rama, but the drillers did not extinguish the boiler fire, causing an oil well fire that went out of control.

The political axe sent more than 200 soldiers to extinguish the fire, but there was no way to let the well spew crude oil every time, and let the fire burn fiercely, and it burned for more than two months before it was extinguished naturally.

This well is a disaster, but also great news. It is estimated that the well produces more than 10,000 tons of crude oil. This means that in Mexico you can find a large and productive oil field in the style of a "spindle top" field in the United States. This is where Mexico's "Golden Belt" appears.

…… De Gorier set several well locations for the Mexican Eagle oil company, among which the Peter Rero Drano No. 4 well suddenly blew out on the night of December 27, 1910, and the oil and gas column was as high as 35 floors, spewing out 14,000~15,700 tons of crude oil in one day and one night. This time it didn't cause a fire. It took eight months to spray 117 million barrels (about 15.96 million tons) of crude oil before it stopped.

In the same year, the Petroleos Mexicanos company in Dohani and Canfield also made a major discovery in Juan Cassiano, near Dos Pocas. The first well is said to produce 15,000 barrels (about 2,000 tons), and the second well is pumping 70,000 barrels (about 10,000 tons) per day.

In 1913, Sero? The Asur No. 4 well has exploded even more violently, producing more than 37,000 tons of crude oil, making it the world's most productive oil well in history......"

After reading the four-and-a-half-page article, Chen Moran was completely sluggish, and his hands holding the magazine even began to tremble, and he sat up straight all of a sudden, his lips were white, and his eyes were wide as he looked at the book in his hand...... What kind of oil field is this, it's simply a flowing tide of black gold!

"One well 15.96 million tons! Sky! Crazy, crazy...... 117 million, how much is a barrel of oil! ”

Muttering about the 100 million oil wells, Xiao Xinren suddenly Chen Moran looked like crazy looking for something.

"There! ...... there"

After flipping through the documents, they were thrown to the ground casually, and after a few minutes of flipping through them, Chen Moran finally grabbed a piece of paper and smirked with a scream of surprise.

"$1.19! developed, now Lao Tzu is developed! ”

This piece of paper was given a few months ago, after deciding to build a car, from Asia Oil, which was not CIF but fob Texas.

"Two hundred million taels of silver! That's 200 million taels! ”

Holding the quotation in his hand, Chen Moran picked up the book again, and on the last page of the article, there was a small table, which not only marked the names and production of sixteen famous oil wells in the Golden Lane Oilfield, but also marked the location of those oil fields with latitude and longitude.

This is not just 200 million taels, but billions of taels of silver in front of Chen Moran, slowly after a while, he can recover from this surprise, carefully copied down the small form, Chen Moran locked the magazine back to the safe, the old books and old magazines in the safe, this will have completely changed their status in his heart, what kind of book is this, it is simply Alibaba's treasure.

"Mr. Xiao, the young master is waiting for you!"

Almost as soon as Xiao Xinren got out of the carriage, the servant of the Chen Mansion walked up to him and said.

Half an hour ago, Xiao Xinren, who was at school, was pulled from the other side by a phone call, walked outside the study on the first floor, knocked the door that had been opened, and then walked in. Lying in front of the table, Chen Moran raised his head after hearing the knock on the door, his face was full of joy, as if he had picked up money.

"Weiyang, you're here, quick! Come on in! ”

Glancing at the documents and books scattered all over the place in the study, Xiao Xinren frowned, he didn't expect the study to be like this, in the military academy, he kept telling those students that the relationship between neat personal housekeeping and discipline would always feel a little dazzling when he looked at this messy study.

On the table in front of Chen Moran was a map, a map drawn in thick brown and red lines, with some place names written sporadically. Xiao Xinren looked at the map on the table curiously.

"Mexico?"

"Yes, Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico, to be exact. ”

Chen Moran smiled and answered his blunt interrogation, this map was the result of two hours ago, he sent more than 30 of his family to run around the concession, and only then bought a large-scale map of Mexico, even in Spanish.

"Why? Are you going to Mexico? ”

"Nope. I'm looking for something. ”

"What?"

"Oil."

Xiao Xinren, who was a little puzzled, was silent for a moment.

"What?"

"Oil."

Xiao Xinren frowned again, this time his confusion took a step further.

"Well, if you need oil, there's one in the kitchen."

Chen Moran, who was lying on the side of the map and was marking the location there, was stunned at first when he heard this, and then laughed out loud.

"Weiyang, I'm not talking about that kind of oil, it's the kind of oil used in cars."

Xiao Xinren was about to point out his mistake and tell him that the porters in the foreign bank would be happy to send a few barrels of gasoline or light oil, but Chen Moran had already continued.

"It's not because I need gas, it's because I want to make money, you know, I don't have any money right now."

"Money?"

Chen Moran's explanation made Xiao Xinren stunned, in recent months, the company's spending money is indeed like flowing water, there is a simplest difference, three months ago, Chen Moran never asked how to spend money, but now he can't wait to break a piece of a few petals to flower, he has no money!

As the manager of the company, Xiao Xinren knows how much money the company has spent in the past few months, and how much money it may spend, is definitely an astronomical amount.

Chen Moran nodded, looking at the map on the table, this map was not detailed enough, but it was barely enough.

"Money, not Yang! I hope to buy these plots of land. If we can find oil there, we will have an endless amount of money, and with that money, we can do whatever we want! ”

After sitting down, Xiao Xinren's eyes stared at the map.

"Mexico?"

Xiao Xinren, who had witnessed the oil mania in the United States when he was in the United States, asked rhetorically.

"Is there really oil in Mexico?"

"Of course! Oil fields can be found by drilling near asphalt lakes! ”

Chen Moran directly said the "knowledge" he had just seen from the magazine.

"Where in Mexico?"

"I've been to the Tampico area and the Golden Belt area in the past, and both of them have a lot of oil seedlings outcropping, and there must be big oil fields there! ”

"You mean, as long as we get oil there, we'll make enough money?"

"That's what I'm here to do, Weiyang."

"Oil is going to be the most important fuel in the world. Cars need it, ships need it, factories need it, oil "black gold", "economic blood". Whoever can find oil will make a fortune. It's not just about getting rich - they will become the kings of the world, and the flow of oil will change the political and economic pattern of the world, and there will be no new fuel to replace oil for at least a hundred years, and the international competition for oil will not stop. ”

After a pause, facing Xiao Xinren's surprise and incomprehension, Chen Moran's expression became serious, but there was still some ecstasy in the seriousness.

"But for us, oil is money! What we need is the wealth that oil brings to us! I've marked here about 150,000 hectares of land, half of which belongs to an American-run Petroleos Mexicanos, and I'm going to buy it and ......."

Looking at the map on the table, Xiao Xinren realized the most critical problem, so he interrupted Chen Moran's words in a loud voice.

"Wait! However, you should know that it is Mexico, and I have some impression of that place, most of which are Indian indigenous areas, and it is easy for Americans to buy land there, but we are Chinese, but do you have American citizenship? ”

"Huh?"

After the "discovery" of this big oil field, Chen Moran, who was completely immersed in the black gold, did not realize the most critical problem, nationality discrimination other than skin color! If a Chinese discovers that big oil field, it will be swallowed by the big oil companies that pounce on it, and there will not even be a slag left, let alone money, it is a great luck to be able to save his life.

"It's a bit tricky!"

Frowning, the pencil tapped the map back and forth between Chen Moran's fingers.

"Are there any Americans in our company? I mean myself! ”

After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Xinren shook his head.

"There are 86 employees in our company who have returned from studying in the United States, but none of them have become naturalized in the United States, and the only way for Chinese to become naturalized in the United States is to be born in the United States.

How could he rest assured that he would hand over such a large sum of wealth to those foreigners who ate bones and did not vomit scum, even if it was handed over to outsiders, he would not be at ease.

"It's hard!"

Frowning and thinking, Chen Moran paused his head with a little hatred.

"We can't just watch that little bit of silver run out, everything will be abandoned halfway, without silver, everything will be dragged down, not to mention that there is not enough money to run Pudong and the steel plant, and even major events will be delayed."

Chen Moran shook his head in annoyance, now he hated why he wanted to see that magazine, if he hadn't seen that golden mountain, it wouldn't be like this.

The silent study suddenly became hollow. The two of them were sitting and the other standing, and they could only hear some breathing, but Chen Moran looked at the map on the table, thinking hard about the solution, and slowly, his eyes flashed with light.

Drinking all the tea on the table in one gulp, Chen Moran, who stood up straight, walked back and forth. Then he stood by the window, staring at the garden outside the window, at this time Chen Moran just looked intently at the beautiful lawn outside, as if if his attention was distracted for even a second, he might lose something forever.

Although he thought of a solution in his heart, for a while, he couldn't make up his mind, this determination was really too difficult to make, and then the wind outside the window blew the blinds creaked, the kind of sound that he was used to, but it would sound so harsh.

"Oh, too...... Maybe there's another way! ”

As if he had made up his mind, Chen Moran, who turned around, licked his lips, and there was only a little helplessness left in his eyes.

"I don't know if this method will work!"

(To be continued)